Being a Morning Musume member greatly increases your chance for a shot in the world of entertainment in Japan. As Hitomi Yoshizawa and Rika Ishikawa branched out to create Hangry & Angry, Reina Tanaka has a new anime series inspired by her, Phantom Thief Reinya.

We are adding this NEW series to our collection which will launch every Friday at 8:50am PST. We are launching episodes 1-3 this Friday, 1/29 to EVERYONE. Then, we will launch one episode per week starting from Friday, 2/5 at 8:50am PST.

Each episode is only a few minutes long but this cleverly crafted short comedy animation is nothing short of entertaining as the members in the police unit all have unique personalities which always makes them desperately chase Reinya who is the “phantom thief”. Will they ever catch her?

Here’s the brief synopsis:

“Phantom Thief REINYA” is the slapstick short comedy animation unfolded by a cute but spoiled thief and dumb police unit. REINYA has been developed in the motif of the popular idol group “Morning Musume” member REINA TANAKA, she stars as a voice actor for the lead role.

REINYA usually works for the convenience store “FAMINYA” as a shop clerk and plans an enormous burglary plan with her assistant “CHU-TARO Mouse” in the hidden den in the store’s basement.

“OH-EDO Police Dept.” is just next to the FAMINYA shop and the unit of the three idiots from the dept., which contains “Captain” who always thinks about nasty things, the “detective” who loves to imagine about girls he likes and the “Policewoman Nocchi” who is just naturally dumb, is desperately chasing REINYA, but they are too stupid to catch her and just get misled around every time.
“PHANTOM THIEF REINYA” is a hilarious slapstick show with cracky and lovely characters.